It is too bad that Justice Minister Rudy Croes could not simply enforce the age limits of those allowed in Aruban casinos. If he had and Aruban casinos followed their own laws, Natalee Holloway would still be alive today as she and the Mountain Brook teens would never have Joran Van der Sloot.

ORANJESTAD – All casinos are at risk of losing their permits if they do not conform to the new policy regulations within one month. This is one of the new measures taken by the Ministry of Justice. The gambling lots are obliged to apply for a permit as the old agreements will be void as of the 1st of September.

Had the Excelsior prohibited an under age Joran Van der Sloot from the casino, Natalee Holloway would still be alive as he would have never met the Mountain Brook teens and never would have gone to Carlos n’ Charlies. Joran had stated that no one went there on a Sunday as it was a slow night.

The Minister of Justice, Rudy Croes, announced that the new regulations are based on recommendations of the inter-governmental organization Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This international organization is responsible for the development and promotion of the policy to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The regulations are ahead of a new law, which is currently being laid down, and were created through the collaboration between government experts and the Casino world (DAC).

As of now the casinos have to give insight into the administration and their internal control. The Minister furthermore states that only the casinos which have complied with all the stipulated conditions will be eligible for a new gambling permit. These conditions stipulate amongst others, that a casino business should have the legal form ‘NV’, that the casino should have sufficient funds to guarantee payment of winners and that the casino should possess a local bank guarantee of 500.000 dollars.

It seems I remember reading a State Department annual report that said Aruba was found to be in violation of money laundering laws. They were to prepare a special study and get into conformity with international banking rules.

Obviously, they have NEVER been behind the eight ball when it comes to obeying rules… They were in violation, year after year. Why the sudden urgency, now?

And who is in control of all those permits and regulations? The ‘Justice Minister’ – Rudy Croes? Oduber himself?
Or did they create a new job for Paulslooot, the Expert of evil?
And what about palm grease?

Give me a break!

Money buys almost anything, specially in Aruba.
They would never close those sources of income, with or without permit.

Aruba, it’s too late to shape your image, your reputation is gone, you are History!!
The whole world knows what’s going on Devils-Island.

Put your effort in solving the Holloway-Case.
Come up with the truth !!!
JUSTICE FOR NATALEE

john staton on
August 2nd, 2008 6:01 am

This is probably just another smoke screen. The money of the powerful will be protected,,JS

Susy Q on
August 2nd, 2008 6:24 am

Well, Aruba has had a bad rep for years…. The US State Dept has had it on the warning list for tourists since the Clinton Adm. back in the ’90′s. I think Aruba tried to suck up to the Feds by promising to try to divert a lot of the drug traffic to other destinations.

Vicki on
August 2nd, 2008 6:52 am

This is just PATHETIC…This makes me sick yo my stomach….POOR NATALEE to have fone to a place so sinister and not know it…this filthy freakin place filled withEVIL corrupt ppl and promoting themselves as a safe island its just sickening…BOYCOTT THIS EVIL VILE PLACE.

dennisintn on
August 2nd, 2008 7:31 am

it’s aruba. officials and casinos won’t abide by this law any more than they do about not allowing minor to gamble and drink alcoholic beverages. this law just gives rudy and friends a new source of income for themselves.
dennisintn

Remember, some of the Mountain Brook kids reported that Joran had been hanging around their group for a few days. So if the casino had upheld the law, who knows what Joran might have done, or tried to do?

The article says that “the gambling lots” have to apply for a new license by September 1.

I remember an article on ScaredMonkeys quite some time ago … it said that Posner should never have been given a casino license, and that it happened only because of some clerical error, in which somebody put an x in the “yes” box, rather than the “no” box.

Uh-huh. That’s what the article said, anyway.

I wonder if, as a result of these new regulations, Aruba will tell Posner to get lost?

I won’t hold my breath, though.

Maybe the reported influx of Colombian tourists, compensating for the absence of the American business, is making Aruba a little nervous?

We also remember an article saying that North Korea was laundering money through Aruba. Don’t tell me that Aruba actually is going to make war on the drug gangs … hard to imagine.

We’ll see how effective the new regulations are.
Handsome is as handsome does, as the old proverb goes.

I also wonder about online gambling … how much of that is centered in Aruba, and will the same rules be enforced? I knew a guy who, for a year or so after graduating from college, made his living by playing Texas Hold ‘em online … he said that they paid off scrupulously.

Maybe he just lucked into the right site? I wouldn’t touch it with the proverbial ten-foot pole.

brie. on
August 2nd, 2008 9:28 am

Posner should never of allowed Joran in his casino let alone a line of credit….the man is a criminal and should not even own any property in Aruba….that was probably arranged by Paulus..

dennisintn on
August 2nd, 2008 10:24 am

#9, the office that made the “error” was karen janssen’s office, where paulus van der sloot was the equivalent of office manager. does that make any bells go off?
dennisintn

misskatie on
August 2nd, 2008 11:09 am

brie
of course it had to do with pauulus and furthermore… this is just another lie that aruba is wanting us to believe they are making changed.. all is the same … they are stupid enough to believe that we will fall for it.. its all garbage…

misskatie on
August 2nd, 2008 11:09 am

oops changes

Vicki on
August 2nd, 2008 11:36 am

Everytime I see that picture of Natalee and her friends, I want to cry my eyes out..How niave and innocent…I realy pray that URINE gets the creeping crud and his you know what falls off. They thought this was a game…they should be arrested just for preying on american tourists…I hope this volcanic ashe just sinks into the water and disappears forever…

2amforsure on
August 2nd, 2008 11:57 am

This is OT – I guess St. Maarten uses the same handbook as Aruba in handling crimes against tourists. Check out http://www.thedailyherald.com/tdhonline/ and scroll down to read about the latest “tourist death” of 28 year old Vincent Mark Cullen. You can also go to http://www.sxmprivateeye.com/ to read the comments. One more black eye for the Caribbean in general. They STILL don’t get it.

brie. on
August 2nd, 2008 2:46 pm

It’s all a big front…no one is going to change anything….the island remains unsafe…those in charge are still there doing their dirty work…

Sandra on
August 2nd, 2008 3:47 pm

Edit: Sandra, or whatever nickname you choose – don’t even bother trying to post the trailer for Renee Gielen’s “crockumentary”. We’ve seen it and so has Natalee’s family. I wouldn’t want to be Renee right about now (klaasend)

Maggie on
August 2nd, 2008 6:37 pm

#5 John Stanton, I agree. We have all seen for 3 years now first hand, what they say and what they do are totally opposite. More laws they won’t enforce. Don’t even enforce the ones they have it seems. The tragedy is that Natalee and her family weren’t able to see all of what we now have before going to Aruba.

This is from Aruba’s own website about gambling.. However nothing done to Paulus, or Joran, who was in casinos all the time underage.

Casinos are located at most large resorts with a few casinos open 24 hours a day. In general, opening hours are 11 a.m. for slots and 1 p.m. through early morning for table games. Hours vary seasonally, so please check before making plans. No one under 18 is allowed in the casinos.

MARIGOT – Negative publicity about the crime on St. Maarten / St. Martin has at breakneck speed over the Internet. Reissites and chat rooms are full of the traumatic experience of Bruce and Kim Park, which – on honeymoon – remained in Orient Bay.

On July 27, the first day of their stay, the husband went early morning to the gym, while his wife thuisbleef. “Someone has been committed then, Kim seized her and pressed the bedroom,” says Bruce on Traveltalkonline.com. “He threatened her rape and murder if they gave him no money.” After a struggle the woman was able to flee. Someone in the adjacent villa were working on, and heard her crying lap to help.

The set went to the Alamanda Hotel and the next day went back to the United States. The man told them that in twelve years time the island had visited fifty times, but that they now no longer possible for fear return. The woman bursting physical, but mental harm is clear, says her husband.

According to a message not confirmed the attacker was a lagos, who was armed with a metal rod. He would be the property some time in the holes have been carried out.

Spokesman Stephane Aurousseau said that the gendarmerie was fully aware of the threat and burglary, but could not comment further. There is an investigation started.

I guess no one else has ever noticed when the tape is viewed.
1. Natalee walks into the casino after she is at the blackjack table. Check the clock.
2. Also I guess no one notices the person with a suit on in the pit next to the dealer take something out of his pocket and place it down next to the male sitting next to Natalee. It has to be done frame by frame but its there. But that person then picks up what looks like a note of some kind(piece of paper).
Let me know.

Maggie,
from your above post:
Stole this from the forum. Kalpoes back on the town at Senor Frogs (Carlos n Charlies) with Gerold Dompig’s son, Michael.. Why was Michael never charged as a lying witness?
Michael tried to tell the truth, his lying father, Gerald put the kabosh on that.

MissKatie on
August 4th, 2008 9:11 am

INTERESTING CROSSBOW
WOULD BE NICE SOMEONE ELSE TAKE ON THIS TOOO

MissKatie on
August 4th, 2008 10:08 am

KAYE
A BUNCHA DIRTY LYING PUNK ASSES… AND THEY ARE TRULY PUNKS!!

BACK TO THE PARTY LIFE .. LOOKING FOR MORE VICTIMS IM ASSUMING… THATS OK THEY WILL SLIP UP SOMEWHERE.. THAN WE CAN ALL SIT BACK AND ENJOY THEIR MISERY

Sharon Chicago on
August 4th, 2008 11:02 am

Myprediction is that Joran will mess up again big time in another country and will not be able to hide behind his corrupted government for safety. He will then be behind bars.

I am still hopeful that he will serve for killing Natalie…it amazes me that with his confession of dumping her body in the ocean that
he is not behind bars now!

Any urine sightings?

kaye on
August 4th, 2008 1:40 pm

pattie 23 is right. the casinos are fun by mafia. this article is a bunch of crap. another lame PR attempt at trying to improve their image aound the world. TOO LATE. stick a fork in it, aruba is done!
lame asses.
when will they “get the clue”. the ONLY thing that can improve their image is to bring closure to natalee’s case. arrest the perps, prosecute them, hang them or gas them. apologize to beth and dave. once and for all, wake up aruba, THAT is the only way to clear your tarnished image. quit dallying aroung with these lame attempts to “make things right” on your crappy island.

Maggie on
August 4th, 2008 5:15 pm

Blast from the past.. Long before Dr. Phil arrived there was this statement from the prosecutor’s office..

Statement from Prosecutor’s Office – CNN – 08-27-05
(CNN) — After being detained and then released last month in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, two brothers were arrested again Friday in Aruba on suspicion they acted “together with other people” in raping and killing the Alabama teen, the prosecutor’s office said. Without elaborating on the evidence, the office said in a statement that “new facts and circumstances” led them to re-arrest Satish Kalpoe, 18 and brother Deepak, 21. “They are suspected of the primary criminal act of together with other people committing premeditated murder, alternately together with other people murdering somebody, more alternately rob a person of her liberty with fatal consequences and even more alternately raping somebody,” the statement said.

If you saw Friday’s show, you know that the Kalpoe brothers’ lawyer, David Kock, was on with us. I was told after the show by investigative reporter Tito Lacle that David Kock is also the lawyer for Deputy Chief Gerold Dompig. Could this really be true? That would certainly be bizarre at best. The lawyer for the deputy chief AND the two suspects that the deputy chief was investigating? That is an interesting client list.

Yea, I remember something about a guy placing something on the table by the Paulus Look-exactly alike. There were two guys involved. They were at a desk or something behind the table. I don’t remember where I saw it. It was before everyone was saying the guy was Paulus. I remember seeing a video, where the Paulus look-exactly alike was sitting with his back to Natalee. As I remember, he turned toward Natalee, but never looked at her, then next thing he is sitting at her table.

Just been on Gretawire. Much discussion on the missing child, Calee Anthony. Lots of the bloggers mention they hope it isn’t going to be another “Aruba” or “Van der Sloot” fiasco. Bloggers mention Natalee Holloway is still remembered in their prayers. So although Natalee is seldom mentioned on Gretawire these days, everyone is still very much aware of her fate and this missing Anthony child brings it all to the surface once again. Aruba will be remembered in a negative way forever in the U.S.

actual story on
August 7th, 2010 2:54 pm

what happen here is that in the year 2000 the maffia in aruba was planing for the big robbery
the casino itself and a list of people to be killed one of these person to be killed is myselve
the way they kill is sinister satanic ,the worker in the casino lots of them are bieng killed one by one in a cruel way of accident,you can check this out ,some of them have lost there entire family,many american that have visite this casino i beleive lots of them are dead,there where dead curse everywhere,and on the night that natalee holoway desapear was a big satanic fight